Argiope aurantia
Black-and-yellow Argiope
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) Class Arachnida (Arachnids) Order Araneae (Spiders) Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders) No Taxon (Entelegynes) Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers) Genus Argiope Species aurantia (Black-and-Yellow Argiope) |
Yellow Garden Spider
Yellow Garden Orbweaver Writing Spider |
Unlikely to bite unless severely provoked, and probably no worse than a bee sting
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Web contains zigzag pattern of banded silk called stabilimentum (plural, stabilimenta)
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Range: temperate North America
Season: late summer, early fall females found in webs |
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